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The Guardian
· collected 2026-10-08 · by Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor
Two Latvian men, aged 32 and 36, were arrested at RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire early Thursday morning after being found inside the base used by both NATO and U.S. military intelligence agencies. They were initially detained on suspicion of trespassing and causing damage but later held under the National Security Act for entering a prohibited area with potential harmful intent. The incident has prompted a counter-terrorism investigation, though authorities have not linked it to recent US military withdrawals from RAF Fairford.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-08,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
Two Latvian men, aged 32 and 36, were arrested inside RAF Molesworth, a Cambridgeshire base used by the US military and NATO for intelligence operations, early Thursday morning after being found near an abandoned vehicle outside the facility. Military police discovered the suspects through a breach in the perimeter fence. Initially charged with trespassing on a prohibited site and causing criminal damage, they were later re-arrested under the National Security Act 2023 on suspicion of entering a prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial to the UK. Counter-terrorism police are now leading the investigation due to the sensitive nature of RAF Molesworth, which houses NATO’s Intelligence Fusion Centre and US Joint Intelligence Operations Center, Europe. The incident occurred amid heightened security concerns following recent events like the withdrawal of B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire over potential threats.
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Two Latvian men were arrested in the early hours of Thursday after they were discovered inside the perimeter of RAF Molesworth, a Cambridgeshire base used by the US military and Nato for intelligence operations.
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The men, 32 and 36, were picked up at 2am inside the base in an investigation that began four hours earlier when military police discovered an abandoned vehicle outside the facility.
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police → pick → facility
Soon after military police, helped by officers from Cambridgeshire police, discovered a small hole in the perimeter fence before finding and arresting the men, initially on suspicion of trespass on a prohibited site and causing criminal damage.
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police → help → damage
The suspects, Latvian nationals currently resident in the UK, were then further arrested on suspicion of an offence under section 4 of the National Security Act 2023 – namely entering a prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial to the UK.
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Counter-terror police are now leading the investigation due to the nature of the incident, which comes a few days after the US withdrew B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire amid concerns about a possible Iran-directed attack.
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Commander Helen Flanagan, head of counter-terrorism policing London, said there was nothing to suggest a connection to last month’s incident near RAF Fairford at this stage, but said investigators were yet to determine what the men were doing.
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A big part of this is looking at any potential motivation as to why the men were present at the site, but I must stress we are keeping an open mind at this stage and inquiries are very much ongoing,” she added.
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The abandoned vehicle was taken to a nearby police location.
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Initial searches led concerned officers to call in explosives specialists to carry out further checks.
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A police cordon was briefly imposed on part of the A1 south of Peterborough and around the village of Glatton, but nothing of concern was found.
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Officers were carrying out two searches at addresses in the Peterborough area in connection with the investigation, counter-terror police added in a statement.
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Both men remained in police custody on Thursday.
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RAF Molesworth is home to Nato’s Intelligence Fusion Centre, which provides military intelligence to Nato, and the US Joint Intelligence Operations Center, Europe, which provides similar service for the US military’s European command, though not Centcom, which is responsible for Iran.
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